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The NCAA Division I Men's Tournament opens Friday and Saturday with 16 first-round games. Here are five to watch: ST. JOHN'S-MONMOUTH. It's something of a New York area derby with the Big East champion against the Northeast champion, which carries a 13-game unbeaten streak into Friday's game. Hawks coach Rob McCourt (a former schoolboy teammate […]

St. John's is the hottest team entering the NCAA Division I Men's Tournament. The Red Storm have won six games in a row — all by shutouts — going into Friday's first-round game against visiting Monmouth. After being decimated by defections during the offseason — New Zealand international Steven Old turned pro and signed with […]

A fan of relegation threatened Brazilian club Fluminense bought a full-page ad in Rio de Janeiro daily O Globo for about $25,000 to send a message to Coach Gusmao, who has yet to win in seven games since becoming the club's sixth coach this year. According to Reuters, her message included the advice, ''Please field […]

FC Dallas fired Coach Colin Clarke on Tuesday after he failed to steer the club past the first round of the playoffs for the second straight year. Clarke's replacement will be the team's fourth coach since its inception in 1996. Only once, under its first coach, Dave Dir, has Dallas managed to advance past the […]

Defending Bundesliga champion Bayern Munich suffered an embarrassing defeat on Wednesday when it loss to last-place Hannover, 1-0, at home and fell to fifth place, six points behind leader Werder Bremen, a 2-1 winner at Nuremberg on Tuesday. Hannover, which entered the game with one win in 10 games, was gifted a goal at the […]

First Round Nov. 9 in Salt Lake City, Utah Utah 3 (Letro 50, Reineke pen. 90, Feigt 104) Idaho State 2 (Okumura 32, 67) (OT). Portland 2 (Chandhoke 30, R.Rapinoe 65) BYU 1 (Larkin 46). Schedule Nov. 10-12 in Chapel Hill, N.C. 1. North Carolina (21-1-0) vs. UNC Asheville (10-6-3) William & Mary (16-1-3) vs. […]

First Round Nov. 8 Loras 1 Wisconsin-Oshkosh 0 UC Santa Cruz 3 Claremont 0 Villa Julie 3 Notre Dame (Md.) 1 Capital 1 Kenyon 2

First Round Nov. 8 Wesleyan 5 Baruch 0 Nazareth 2 Geneseo State 0 Rochester 1 Hamilton 0 Chris. Newport 4 Chestnut Hill 0 Keene St. 2 Lasell 0 Hobart 0 Elizabethtown 0 (Hobart wins 5-3 on penalties.) Bethany 0 Denison 1 Nov. 10 Virginia Wesleyan (13-3-3) vs. Greensboro (11-8-2) Lynchburg (14-4-2) vs. North Carolina Wesleyan […]

So Colin Clarke has taken the fall for his team being upset not once, but twice, in the MLS conference semifinals by Colorado despite being the higher-seeded team. Did he deserve it? Well, the blame for a disappointing performance always falls in the same direction, and for losing twice in the playoffs with a chance […]

The USA was eliminated from the FIFA Beach Soccer World Championship Tuesday when it lost to host Brazil, 10-6, in their Group A finale. The Americans finished tied with Poland and Japan for second place behind Brazil, but Japan went through on the tiebreaker. The Americans played Brazil tighter than Poland or Japan had in […]

Freshman Ryan Sorokawho helped St. John's capture the Big East Tournament, is the Soccer America Men's Player of the Week. The former U.S. U-17 star, who had game-winning goals in the Red Storm's first two games of the Big East Tournament the previous week, played a part in all three of the team's goals in […]

MEN G PLAYER, SCHOOL, YEAR (HOMETOWN) 20 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. (Lake Charles, La.) 18 Steven Holloway, Monmouth, Sr. (New Zealand) 17 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. (Kenya) 17 Riley O'Neill, Kentucky, Sr. (Canada) 17 Jeffrey Gonsalves, Rhode Island, Sr. (Canada) 15 Charlie Davies, Boston College, Jr. (Manchester, N.H.) 15 Josh Trott, Holy Cross, Sr. […]

The NAIA's top-ranked team, Azusa Pacific, advanced to the NAIA Women's National Championship for the ninth straight year with a 4-0 win over Vanguard Tuesday night in the Region II final. Freshman Theresa Broad led the Cougars with two goals to give her 23 goals for the season. Lindsey Wilson, the 2004 NAIA women's champion, […]

John Tart, who guided Charlotte to the NCAA Division I Tournament semifinals in 1996, resigned as men's head coach Tuesday after 12 years with the 49ers. In 1996, Tate was named the Conference USA Coach of the Year after leading the 49ers to a school record 19 wins and the semifinals. He leaves as the […]

Texas, one of four No. 1 regional seeds in the NCAA Division I Women's Tournament, won't host on the first weekend of tournament play. Its regional quartet will be hosted by UConn. Penn State forward Barkley Miller's last name was misidentified in last Friday's story about the Nittany Lions. They finished with a 7-11-2 record, […]

Oregon's Nicole Garbinis the Soccer America Women's Player of the Week for leading the Ducks to big wins over No. 3 UCLA, 2-1, and USC, 3-1. Garbin settled a double overtime thriller with the Bruins, scoring from seven yards out off a throw-in by teammate Allison Newton in the 108th minute to snap UCLA's 10-match […]

Two of MLS's brightest young stars, forwards Freddy Adu (D.C. United) and Josmer Altidore (New York), head the group of 19 players Coach Thomas Rongen called up for the U.S. Under-20 national team's friendly match against Guatemala on Nov. 15 at Florida Atlantic University Stadium in Boca Raton, Fla. The match comes just two months […]

Region I Concordia (Ore.) 1 Carroll 1 (Concordia wins 3-2 on penalties.) Region II Azusa Pacific 4 Vanguard 0 Region III Morningside 1 Midland Lutheran 0 Region IV Park 3 Kansas Wesleyan 1 Region VII Saint Xavier 1 Trinity Christian 0 Region VIII Siena Heights 1 Spring Arbor 0 Region IX/X Tiffin 1 Houghton 0 […]

Two of MLS's brightest youngest stars, forwards Freddy Adu (D.C. United) and Josmer Altidore (New York), head the group of 19 players Coach Thomas Rongen called up for the U.S. Under-20 national team's friendly match against Guatemala on Nov. 15 at Florida Atlantic University Stadium in Boca Raton, Fla. The match comes just two months […]

The annual positional rankings are based on opinions of MLS coaches and players, statistics and personal observation. Normally, only players appearing in one half (16 games) of the MLS schedule are eligible, but to accommodate player absences because of international duty and injuries in a World Cup year, as well as players added during the […]

By Mike WoitallaExecutive Editor, Soccer America Magazine Thanks to soccer, Ethan Zohn's reality-show celebrity has legs. Contestants on ''Survivor: Africa'' could each submit a list of five ''luxury'' items. If approved, they could bring one to Kenya. ''I wrote 'soccer ball' four times,'' says Ethan Zohn. ''On the fifth line, I wrote Hacky Sack.'' The […]

The rise of paid coaches is just one reason why it commonly costs an American child thousands of dollars a year Send your comments on the cost of youth soccer to letters@socceramerica.com. Please include your first and last name and hometown. There are a lot of ways to spend lots of money on youth soccer. […]

Santa Clara and Texas joined Notre Dame and North Carolina, ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the Soccer America Women's Top 25, as the top regional seeds in the NCAA Division I women's tournament, which begins with the first two rounds Thursday-Sunday at 16 regional sites. Santa Clara beat both of last year's Women's […]

The USA split its first two games at the 2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Coach Roberto Ceciliano's team fell to Japan, 8-4, in their opening match on Friday, but defeated Poland, 4-2, two days later. Former Santa Clara player Anthony Chimienti led the USA with two goals against the […]

With 64 teams in the NCAA Division I Women's Tournament, there would seem to be plenty of bids to go around for everyone, but there wasn't one for Oregon. In Monday's biggest surprise, the NCAA women's soccer committee ignored the Ducks, turning out the Pac-10's second-place team for the first time in history. Coming off […]